Hat and cap band.



F. A. KOPP.

HAT AND GAP BAND.

APPLIOATION FILED-SEPT. s, 1910.

993,257., I Patented May 23, 1911.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS THE NOPR/S PETERS c0., wasmncrau, n. c.

FRANK A. KOPP, OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.

HAT AND GA]? BAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1911.

Application filed September 8, 1910. Serial No. 580,967.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. KOPP, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Miami, in the county of Dade and State of Florida, haveinvented a new and Improved Hat and Cap Band, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present lnvention has in view are:to provide a device for tightening and loosening the grip of a hat orcap upon the head of the wearer; and to provide an auxiliary band fortightening the holding grip of a hat or cap upon the head of the wearer.

One embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in the structureillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters ofreference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of a hat having applied thereto a bandconstructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig.2 is a view of a band constructed in accordance with the present invention, the band being shown as removed from the hat; and Fig. 3 is amodified form of the invention.

The present invention is most suitable for application upon soft oryielding band hats. As shown in the drawings the type is that which isknown as a railroad Stetson hat. The hat is equipped with the usual band8, and is in all other respects constructed as is common to hats of thisdescription.

The present invention is designed to perinit an excess pressure to be attimes applied to the hat to cause the same to hold more tightly upon thehead of the wearer. For this purpose an auxiliary band 9 is provided,which may be constructed of any suitable material, that shown in thedraw ings being a flexible silk band. The ends 10, 10 0f the band 9 areoverturned upon sheet metal folded tabs 11, 11. The tabs 11, 11 areprovided with flexible wire extensions 12, 12. For purposes ofornamentation the extensions 12, 12 are provided at the ends with knobs.13, 13 and tassels 14:, 14. The extensions 12, 12 are disposed to bewrapped each upon the other, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, thewrapping serving to draw upon the band 9 to tighten the same upon thehead of the wearer. When the band 9 is in position the gap or spacebetween the ends thereof carrying the tabs 11, 11 is such as to allowfor suitable play in tightening the said band.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have shown a modified form of the invention,wherein there is substituted for the band 9 a continuous wire 15, theends whereof are provided with the knobs 13 and tassels 14, as abovedescribed with reference to the extensions 12, 12 of the band 9.

When not in use the band 9 may be loosened and removed from the hat andcarried in the pocket, if desired; or the same may be loosened upon thehat and allowed to there remain. When the wearer of a hat having appliedthereto a band of the character described passes into a locality wherethe wind is liable to blow the hat from his head, a few turns of thetwisted extensions 12 to wrap the same upon each other serves to tightenthe grip of the hat upon the head to prevent the hat from being blowntherefrom. Having passed the locality thus guarded against, a turn ortwo of the extensions 12 in the unwinding direction relieves thepressure upon the head.

I desire it to be understood that while I have described and shown myinvention as applied to a hat, it is equally well adapted to caps.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is As an article of manufacture, a hat band,comprising a flexible fabric strip of non stretchable material; and aplurality of metal tabs each having a metal wire-like extension fixedlymounted on said tabs and extended therefrom, one of said tabs beingsecurely mounted in each end of said strip, the ends of said extensionsbeing ornamented.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

FRANK A. KOPP.

Witnesses:

ROBERT F. Soorrnnn, Roscoe M. PARKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G.

